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Re:The Limits to Blockchain Scalability by idlewords on Sunday May 23, 2021 @05:55PM (#27258973)
Yeah, and imagine further that people were bidding up the price of IP addresses in a speculative frenzy instead of actually using them.
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Re:The Limits to Blockchain Scalability by puranjay on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:11PM (#27259098)
People did bid up the price of domain names at least in a speculative frenzy instead of actually using them
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Re:The Limits to Blockchain Scalability by imtringued on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:22PM (#27259545)
New TLDs are a money grab as well. You're hoping that big companies like google buy your domains just to make sure nobody else has them.
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